Middle-Aged Quotes (page 2)

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• experience
• tears
• movie

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies. Frank O'Hara

• eight
• know
• finding

You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches? Warren Ellis

• she
• him
• skin

breathing secondhand smoke, being subject to unfair dairy pricing, and not being able to mime (or lap dance), though they are all tragic, tragic injustices, are not quite as bad as the systematic segregation of public transportation based on skin color. And while fighting for your right to lap dance and mime and breathe just regular pollution is a very fine, very American idea, it is not quite as brave as being middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving... Sarah Vowell

• saying
• men
• book

I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me across the doorway to one of the hallways extending out from the waiting area, except when I looked up from the book both these men were staring straight ahead, expressionless, with no sign of anyone needing to 'simmer down' in any conceivable way. David Foster Wallace

• caring
• beautiful
• ignorance

How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured. Nicholas Sparks

• smile
• red
• men

An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour. Ken Follet

• chance
• manly
• adulting

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley

• good
• men
• goodness

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men. Kathy Griffin

• hurt
• childhood
• bird

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. Herbert Gold

• children
• people
• four

I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people. Dick Van Dyke

• good
• experience
• experiments

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. Roddy Doyle

• work
• hard
• working very hard

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard. Andrew Denton

• music
• rock
• hate

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. Sting

• moments
• dead
• saying

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. Elmer Davis

• men
• boys
• wills

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. Kin Hubbard